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No. 369,000. Patented Aug. 30, 1887.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CE.

KATIEIIW. EUBANK, OF-RUTHERFORD, CALIFORNIA.

COMBINED TRUNK AND BURE'AU.

, SPECIFICATION forming part-of Letters Patent N0. 369,000, dated August30 1887.

Application filed May 28, 1887.

.To all whom it may concern).-

Be it known that I, KATIE W. EUBANK, re-

- siding at Rutherford, in the county of Napa 7 main steady at anyangle.

and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement inTraveling Trunk and Bureau Combined, of which the following is aspecification.

My invention consists in certain novel constructions, combinations, andarrangements of parts in a combined trunk and bureau,as Will behereinafter. described and specifically claimed.

Figure l is a perspective view of the entire trunk opened and set up asa bureau. Fig. 2 represents a plate as taken oif from the front of thetrunk, and Fig. 3 is a perspective view of the trunk when closed. Thetrunk contains several drawers, 6 e e, as shown in Fig. 1. The handlesor knobs are sunk into the front boards of said drawers. The upper oneof the drawers a is provided with a suitable spring-lock for fasteningthe hasp O, and this lockis operated by a key inserted into a key-holeof the drawer and a corresponding hole in the safety lock-plate g,hereinafter described.

On the top of the trunk A there are two dressing-cases, b b, withdrawers, Fig. 1, the

height of these dressing-cases being equal to the depth of the coverO'of the trunk. Inside the cover 0 there are two other dressing-cases, dd, as shown in Fig. 1,which,when thetrunk is closed, occupy the space infront of the cases b b. The mirror 'orlooking-glass eis so arranged thatit can be inclined and will re- The upper edge glides up and downbetween the cases d d, the lower backward and forward between the casesbb. For this purpose there are small fiaton the top of the bureauportion of the trunk, I get access to the space behind the mirror insidethe cover or lid of the same,-

Serial N0.239.715. (Nomodehl which space may be used for any requiredpurpose.

Openings f may be provided in the vertical guides f for the passageoutward of the lugs ewhen the mirror isto be adjusted in'a horizontalposition, as just described.

To the front of the trunk there is secured a thin plate of galvanizedsheet-iron, 9, (see Figs. 2 and,3,) which plate protects the drawers a aa and prevents them from being opened. In the accompanying Figs. 1 and3, this plate is shown as held in place by a number of iron cleats,g,which are fastened to the front edges of the trunk. To put this plate011 or off, it is simply necessary to slide it vertically in or out. Themetal rim 0 of the cover or lid 0 of the trunk holds down theplate g byits upper edge,-and prevents it from being lifted out as long asthetrunkis closed or the hasp 0 held by the lock.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. The combined trunk and bureau comprising the outer body portion orcase, A, hinged cover 0, drawers a, the upper one of which is providedwith a suitable lock for holding the hasp O of the cover 0, cleats g onbody A, rim 0 on cover 0, plate 9, the dressing-cases d d b b, provided,respectively, with the vertical guidesf and the horizontal guides f, andthe mirror 6, having lugs e, substan tially as and for the purposedescribed.

2. The combination of the mirror 0 with being fitted by its lugs e invertical guides f, having openings f, of the dressing-casesd d in thecover 0, and fitted by similar lugs in horizontal guides f of thedressing-cases b b, the said cases at and b being arranged to pass oneanother when the cover 0 is being opened or closed, substantially as andfor the purpose described.

KATIE W. EUBANK.

Witnesses:

. B. F. KETTLEWELL,

J. A. KETTLEWELL.

